Historical and ethnographic zoning of Ukraine: a modern state and scientific prospects

Author

HLUSHKO MYKHAYLO

a Doctor of History, a professor at the Ivan Franko Lviv National University Ethnology Subdepartment

Historicalandethnographiczoningof Ukraine:

a modern state and scientific prospects

Abstract

The author of the article raises a chain of important problem issues concerning to the current state of historical and ethnographic division into districts of Ukraine. The absence of the Ethnographical Atlas of Ukraine is the largest problem. Therefore, the ethnologists have to base themselves on the other reliable sources – TheUkrainian Language Atlas – especially during the localization of various ethnographic units and identification of their disputable borders. The Southern and Eastern boundaries of the historical and ethnographic Volyn belong to this category.

According to The Ukrainian Language Atlas, the Southern borderline of Volyn dialect is located approximately on the line Belz – Mosty Velyki – Busk – Zolochiv – Zbarazh – Krasyliv – Khmilnyk – Kalynivka – Teteyiv; the Eastern border is over Teteyiv – Ruzhyn – Korostyshiv.

According to the ancient written sources, the territory of Volyn dialects circulation, localized by Ukrainian dialectologists, has been formed mainly in the XV–XIX centuries. Thus, the Southern boundary of Volyn dialect circulation in the late XIXth – early XXth centuries corresponds nearly with the Southern border of Volynian Voivodeship in the XV–XVIII centuries and the Southern route of the refugees from Volyn, who have bent their steps to Kyiv and Bratslav Voivodeships for permanent residence. In particular, lower middle class citizens and peasants of Volynian Voivodeship have migrated to the East using a traditional route, created before the Lublin Union (1569) – above the Volhynian and Podillia borderline. The Eastern boundary of Volyn dialects circulation has appeared as a result of Volynians migration in this direction and the joining of the Western part of the former Kyiv Voivodeship to the Volhynian Province in the late XVIIIth century. After the historical sources, the Northern territories of Podillia Voivodeship have been colonized by Volynians in the first half of the XVIII century after the liberation of these territories from the Ottoman Empire supremacy (1699).

Taking into consideration the marked historical circumstances and also the trustworthy scientific corollaries of current Ukrainian dialectologists and certain ethnologists, the author considers that in the late XIXth – early XXth centuries the Eastern boundary of historical and ethnographic Volyn has been located on the line Starosiltsi – Korostyshiv – Andrushivka – Ruzhyn – Dziunkiv – Teteyiv. The Southern borderline of this ethnographic unit has reached the Northern outskirts of Teteyiv – Pohrebyshche Druhe – Kalynivka – Khmilnyk – Stara Syniava – Krasyliv – Volochysk – Zbarazh – Zboriv – Zolochiv – Hlyniany – Zapytiv – Zhovkva – Rava Ruska.

Keywords

Ethnology, Ukraine, historical and ethnographic zoning, problem issues, TheUkrainian Language Atlas, historical sources, Southern and Eastern boundaries of historical and ethnographic Volyn.

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